Bites from a lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum), which live on white-tailed deer, are the main cause of α-gal allergy in the United States.Credit: BackyardProduction/Getty Thomas Platts-Mills develops a rash if he eats red meat. The immunologist is one of thousands of people who are diagnosed each year with tick-induced α-gal allergy — a life-threatening
In June, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned that there is a 63% chance of a very strong El Niño developing before the end of 2026, potentially rivaling the most severe episodes since records began in 1950. The 1997-98 El Niño, one of the strongest on record, triggered severe floods and droughts across
The El Niño weather pattern that is strengthening in the Pacific Ocean is on track to be the largest in at least 150 years, researchers said today during a press conference. If the monstrous forecasts they presented come true, the heat surge that El Niño will unleash from the ocean, combined with warming due to
SCARBOROUGH, Maine– New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could mean the end for missing whales, which can drown after
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island — On a pristine Rhode Island beach teeming with noisy seabirds, a group of biologists armed with nets sneak up on a pair of American oystercatcher chicks. But just as they close in to capture them, one of the football-sized birds, with bright orange beaks and long legs, runs toward a
Hot dogs, beach days and iced tea on the porch are some of the rites of summer. But in an era of global warming, a new ritual has emerged: quelling the smoke from wildfires burning hundreds of miles or more away. The Midwest, Northeast and parts of Canada have been bombarded by thick smoke that
